jrs060@m... suppose to mystery. Paul, The IC cars were originally numbered in the 210000-210999 series. The April 1940 ORER shows 960 cars still in the group. By this time they were being

Denny, the material on the shelves at the Barriger are no more or less than that at the Northwestern library or several others. It is by no means the full collection. It used to be that you'd have

Thanks Chet, Most informative and something I will put on my photographic pursuit list. Paul Lyons Laguna Niguel, CA

Chuck Yungkurth is dead right in his understanding of where responsibilities and accountability lie in publicly owned or non-profit museums. The "owners" are the public at large, and the trustees

Hello everyone, Following up on the discussion earlier in the week about B&O and C&O war emergency hoppers, a photo of a B&O hopper was posted on Fallen Flags today. The link

During the summers of 1964, 1965 I worked for the Milwaukee Road in their freighthouse at Galewood (Chicago). Most of the operation was devoted to distribution of Montgomery Wards merchandise from

Frank, I have two builder's shots of LV cars with this lettering scheme (both also had black diamond heralds to the right of the doors). One was built by Pressed Steel Car Co. in 1941 and was a 1937

Got the following information on M&StL freight cars from Gene Green, as I am the owner/moderator of the M&StL group. Some very interesting information on a series of freight cars. But does anyone have

From Steve Shaffer: This statement in Ellington, et. al. is confusing, if not downright misleading. But remember that the book was written many years ago when much less prototype information was in

Frank Brua wrote: "I have an old Athearn metal sided Lehigh Valley 'AAR box car kit produced in the late 1940's which has the words 'Lehigh Valley' above the reporting marks and under this the

Woody, Rob Schoenberg's site indicates that all 748(two were lost) of the PRR class G24 was converted to steel sides by

It was early... before the LIRR's were even transferred to PRR reporting marks. There is a photo of an LIRR car before repainting and lettering to PRR. The date of the photo is 3/22/37, but the

Hey Gang, An image of a B&O War Emergency hopper just came up on the Fallen Flags site. Here's the link: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo30740amm.jpg Looks like it is class N-37 with a reweigh

Charlie Vlk makes a good point. The min/max tolerance on the NMRA HO scale standards gauge is .025". If the track is .040" wider than even the NMRA minimum gauge, that's no reason to fault the code 88

List, Does anyone know if Dan Hall is still producing his line of styrene Superior boxcar doors? Thanks, Shawn Beckert

seems to me that .040" is way off from what the guage should be. did you mike the guage? i just checked a bunch of my old ME track/bridge sections and they are DNO. have you checked your nmra guage

anybody know what year the last of these gons had their wood sides changed to steel? thanks woody grosdoff

"It turns out that the guage of the ME bridge flex track is about .040" wider than the NMRA standard..... but I'm not about to swap out every wheelset in every freight car." Isn't .040" enough of a

Refrigerator cars hauled more than just food. I worked at a Johnson's Wax pressure packing plant in 1966. Household and commercial products were shipped in URTX reefers and RBLs, including the JWAX

In a message dated 1/28/2005 2:43:07 PM Mountain Standard Time, smithbf@... writes: Rob Schoenberg's site indicates that all 748(two were lost) of the PRR class G24 was converted to